Table 11.12

Hospital attendance (excluding maternity) in the past year, by equivalised household income tertile within minority ethnic group

Aged 16 and over						1999
Outpatient/Day patient/Inpatient	Equivalised household income tertile
	Men			Women
	Lowest	Middle	Highest	Lowest	Middle	Highest
Observed %
Black Caribbean
Outpatient	36	41	27	32	35	34
Day patient	10	6	6	12	7	6
Inpatient	7	12	6	10	11	7
Indian
Outpatient	21	34	32	31	28	26
Day patient	5	5	11	9	9	8
Inpatient	10	9	7	13	5	5
Pakistani
Outpatient	25	30	31	21	25	12
Day patient	6	9	4	7	11	5
Inpatient	7	13	5	8	9	6
Bangladeshi
Outpatient	28	30	a	23	27	a
Day patient	7	7	a	8	8	a
Inpatient	8	7	a	5	3	a
Chinese
Outpatient	19	19	25	28	11	21
Day patient	6	8	6	12	5	7
Inpatient	4	5	1	6	2	8
Irish
Outpatient	[20]	35	34	32	37	30
Day patient	[11]	9	7	5	9	12
Inpatient	[14]	11	7	10	9	12
General population
Outpatient	40	35	31	35	34	30
Day patient	12	8	7	10	7	8
Inpatient	15	10	7	10	10	8
Standardised ratios
Outpatient
Black Caribbean	1.07	1.07	0.88	1.04	1.06	1.17
Standard error	0.16	0.13	0.10	0.12	0.11	0.11
Indian	0.66	1.01	0.99	1.02	0.92	0.87
Standard error	0.14	0.11	0.10	0.15	0.11	0.10
Pakistani	0.82	1.03	0.93	0.79	0.91	0.41
Standard error	0.11	0.11	0.15	0.11	0.13	0.13
Bangladeshi	0.96	1.00	a	0.91	1.26	a
Standard error	0.09	0.15	a	0.10	0.18	a
Chinese	0.65	0.61	0.72	0.89	0.33	0.62
Standard error	0.17	0.14	0.15	0.18	0.10	0.13
Irish	[0.64]	0.97	1.08	1.01	1.11	1.02
Standard error	[0.20]	0.14	0.10	0.16	0.13	0.09
General population	1.21	1.01	0.98	1.14	0.98	0.98
Standard error	0.11	0.06	0.04	0.09	0.05	0.04
Inpatient
Black Caribbean	0.70	1.28	0.79	1.24	1.29	0.92
Standard error	0.26	0.34	0.23	0.29	0.28	0.23
Indian	1.37	1.08	0.91	1.61	0.66	0.77
Standard error	0.44	0.27	0.25	0.45	0.21	0.23
Pakistani	1.04	2.10	0.72	1.31	1.21	0.92
Standard error	0.28	0.41	0.36	0.35	0.34	0.46
Bangladeshi	1.01	1.02	a	0.90	0.56	a
Standard error	0.22	0.38	a	0.24	0.35	a
Chinese	0.48	0.71	0.05	0.81	0.18	0.78
Standard error	0.31	0.35	0.07	0.40	0.14	0.29
Irish	[1.93]	1.15	0.99	1.12	1.12	1.47
Standard error	[0.79]	0.36	0.23	0.38	0.30	0.24
General population	1.80	0.94	0.91	1.26	1.10	0.92
Standard error	0.32	0.13	0.10	0.21	0.13	0.09
Bases (weighted):
Black Caribbean	76	106	132	115	136	176
Indian	89	166	193	95	183	188
Pakistani	103	97	61	117	92	55
Bangladeshi	69	25	8	72	25	5
Chinese	18	27	30	21	29	34
Irish	100	419	827	208	563	989
General population	2681	11139	23759	4296	14643	25462
Bases (unweighted):
Black Caribbean	107	160	201	172	210	258
Indian	87	165	228	97	183	231
Pakistani	189	176	95	216	165	89
Bangladeshi	278	97	22	305	96	15
Chinese	62	83	94	69	87	112
Irish	39	140	284	84	189	351
General population	235	924	1915	375	1207	2044

^a Results not shown because of small bases.

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